Britain rules out possibility of Southern Cameroons independence- but SCNC says UK’s opinion is irrelevant and that only the United Nations will decide the fate of Southern Cameroonians.
Officials of the Southern Cameroons National Council, SCNC, have reacted sharply to a recent declaration by the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, that Anglophones should never dream of having a referendum to determine their independence.
The swift reaction comes following an interview granted The Guardian Post in which the self-exiled SCNC youth league leader, Ebenezer Akwanga revealed that Tony Blair had in reply to a request for Britain to support Southern Cameroonians gained independence told him bluntly that independence cannot be possible because Anglophones and Francophones had voted to live together in Foumban.
Reacting to Tony Blair’s declaration which analysts say represents the position of Britain, a senior SCNC official who preferred to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to answer to Britian’s gibberish told The Guardian Post that the United Kingdom, UK’s opinion was irrelevant and that only the United Nations can decide the fate of Southern Cameroonians.
First, he argued that there was no union between Southern and Eastern Cameroonians as the British have been pontificating. He substantiated that the absence of the British and the United Nations at the Foumban conference as stipulated by the UN plebiscite made the gathering illegal.
Secondly, he sustained that the West Cameroon parliament did not endorse the decision of the Foumban conference on the purported reunion between the West and East Cameroon.
In addition, he argued that no document exists anywhere to show that there was a reunion between the two states. Hear him: “What happened in Foumban was a come-we stay agreement and not a marriage between two parties”.
To further demonstrate that the Southern Cameroons is not part of La Republique du Cameroon, the embittered SCNC official hammered that it was President Biya, a Francophone, who in 1984 returned their previous name, La Republique du Cameroun.
He said President Biya had by doing so excluded Southern Cameroonians from the so-called unitary state which he insisted was in the first place illegal.
